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I have been doing MK for a couple of months now and thanks to this site I knew all the traps that I could fall in and Im avoiding them like the plague..I did notice the first 3 times I commented on my directors pink cadillac she did not smile she simply said thank you with a sad look on her face…Now she badgers me to place orders for crap for inventory and so on and everytime I simply talk about that ” wonderful car” I would love to have one day and it completely gets her off my back..I think she knows that I know she pays for that car lol…BTW my goal is not that car..My goal is selling and zero recruiting …But I dont think she gets that yet

That’s the beauty of MK. You get to take advantage of any part of the marketing plan you wish. If you don’t want to recruit no problem! You can sell, sell, sell and make 50% of every sale!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!

Mary Kay is a Beautiful thing! You get to choose your own Career path! Although the income possiblities grow larger as you grow into a leader, you do not have to take advantage of those things if you don’t want to! I love this company! And I want to share it with others, I am so glad someone showed me Mary Kay, I know there are others like me waiting to find Mary Kay. Whether I recruit on not I feel it is my obligation as a person to share the wonderful business I have stumbled upon. No one should keep great things to themsleves! 🙂

Amanda,
Way to go! That is why so many of us continue to post here – besides it’s an absolute blast in the forum! You are welcome to join us there and find out for yourself! We do have current IBC’s and talk about everything, not just MK, actually very little MK! LOL
Just keep YOUR goals in mind and work it YOUR way! Congrats! Hope you join us in the forum, just click “forum” upper left!

Maria – I do as well – I love my car and it is free! What I don’t think people understand is that just like any job that gives you a company car to drive – if you don’t keep doing that job – you won’t be able to keep driving that car for free. If a corporate company gave their employee a company car to drive for free but that employee didn’t do the work and didn’t show up for work – they wouldn’t get to keep the car. Mary Kay is the exact same way – you keep working your business and the company rewards you by paying for everything on that lease vehicle. I loev it being a lease vehicle because that means they take care of everything – the plates, the insurance, the registration, any maintenance – everything!

I don’t understand the mentality that once you earn the car you shouldn’t have to continue to work to keep it. And yes – you do earn it – just like we say someone “won” a sports game – they didn’t just win it – they earned it through hardwork, training and skill – just like those that earn a car in Mary Kay.

AMEN! Well said. I earned 3 cars while I was in MK, and I look forward to earning more when I return to the United States! Yes, when I did not meet the required production, I did have to contribute to my lease payment, however, that payment just came out of the commission check that the company paid me based on the production my unit did have. So it is earned, but you do have to keep working to maintain. If you don’t work or produce at your J.O.B. you will undoubtedly get fired. Go figure..with MK you have the control on whether or not you are fired. LOL

If you understood what you were reading you’d know that the title of this item says “win” because that is the way it is presented to recruits in Mary Kay. The directors almost always say “you can win a car” not “you can earn a car.” What’s fun about earning after all?! Make it sound fun!

It’s a team effort – you can’t “earn” anything in this business without helping others to succeed and move up in this business. Most the work is put in by the car driver – as it’s based on her doing the appts to meet the people to share the information with and recruit those women. She has to personally recruit 14 women.

People get so upset by the term “free” as nothing is “free” in life – you have to work for it and if you work and meet the requirements – then it is monetarilly free – the company pays for everything – but yes you have to work and continue to work for it. That’s the hard part – people most often aren’t willing to put in the work.

yes and each member is making cash, and yes your director or team lead is driving that care, you are allowed to earn it too, Its called working a job, and you can take the extra benefits, like a carif you choose. Its Your own business. I have driven a car, worked full time, part time and just for me. You work it as it fits into your life and what you want. Or just don’t do it! Don’t knock people who make the money they want out of it. Yes there are some pushy consultants, and directors but there are alot that offer it to you and its your choice to take them up on it or not.
It pretty much ends up your choice to do with as you wish. How much do you want to work.
Mary Kay has always put the OPTION there for you. You decide!!

Ask yourself how much you want to bug people. It’s sales, but it’s sales to individuals, not like having your own shop or a territory. You have to walk up to people and bug them. You have to bug people to have parties for you.
Clue: no one wants to do parties anymore. Maybe in the 1960’s, but not 2017.

One MaryKay consultant recruits fourteen women or men and earns the right to drive a MK car, this gives these men or women either a full time or part time job (whichever they decide) to make extra money- fifty percent profit. And out of them posibly one or two decide they want to recruit fourteen more people to earn theirselves the right to drive a company car (for free).. these new fourteen people are selling Mary Kay products at their individual paste and are making fifty percent profit..extra cash. So one person is helping the other either way its a win win situation.. How is that exploiting someone else for your own personal gain? If anything they’re helping others, plus only someone who is truly interested will agree to join, no one has a gun pointed at them forcing them to join. Plus if they’re not interested they can leave and receive 90 percent of whatever they paid for back.

I agree! If you don’t like mk or don’t want to sell then don’t!!! Don’t get on here trying to discourage others just because you are to lazy to work.. if you don’t want to recruit don’t!!! Also you don’t have to take the car you can also take cash composation. Plus you still making 50 percent on what you sell! Mk has helped more women then not!! And I’ve never heard anyone at my meeting or otherwise say win a car they say earn a car and they tell you how to keep it ect… no lies or hidden facts…

Hi my name is Claudia!-I am enjoying into the company for 1 year and almost to month for personal use only my husband and I love it!-Sometimes I sale a product but I don’t offer either. The Company Mary Kay doesn’t bother me at all. Instead of buying my cosmetics in other places and paying the full amount plus tax I buying @ the Company.
So, I save money, delivery at the door and exceptional quality. The Company is very accessible in many different ways personal, careers, direct sales and much more… about their cars is optional too, I found very adaptable if you want the money or the car.
In my personal opinion is GREAT to earn the car and continue your achievement instead to use my family car put extra miles wear out my car …the company giving me an opportunity to choose is *”SENSASiO/NAL “*….Just remember is people for every thing some they like Attention an find excuses and drama for every occasion.

Mary Kay just wanted to give a chance to those who want to grow in their own term and recognize every effort.
LOVE MARY Kay OPPORTUNITY and the Prestige Products.
All the blessings to every sister keep dreaming and have faith!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗

Hello ladies! I joined Mary Kay on January 28th 2012! I love all of the ladies in my Mary Kay family, young and old. We are a family because our company is set on FAMILY & CHRISTIAN VALUES and we all desire success <3. Why wouldn't you want to help someone be successful in your family? Mary Kay is giving so many women in the United States a chance to make their dreams come true! When it comes to anything in life, dreams haveto be earned. Not once was I told that I would "win" a car. I was told before I joined that If I wanted to be successful in this company, then I had to earn it. Mary Kay gives you all of the tools to achieve your dreams! It is up to you to really want it. Be true to yourself. The more you doubt our company, the more you doubt yourself!

Love your comment on the pink light house.com site about the business your exactly right. These people are downing the Marykay business, Marykay gave each of us consultants all the tools to be sucessful , this is a company that you will not be turned down for being a woman in a mans world, and not get promoted… You work hard you will climb the ladder to success.

“Christian values” do not include deceipt and half-truths. As a mother of an MK consultant, I have watched with great sadness as my daughter has given an evangelical-style “testimony,” every time I see her for twenty years, about how much Mary Kay has done for her. Here’s how much it’s done for her: She blames herself because she can’t sell her speel to enough people after all these years to make a living as a single mother, like Mary Kay did. This college graduate has been on a treadmill of depression all these years. Meanwhile, she justifies why she doesn’t need or want a “real job” while drawing food stamps and getting free lunches for her children, claiming losses year after year on her business the way she says the company tells her she is allowed to do! I quit long ago trying to reason with her. She is way too brain-washed in believing that her mother is nuts for being a non-believer! She tells me that the IRS has audited and CLEARED those they audited for tax fraud. After all, that’s what she’s learned at Mary Kay meetings, of course. It makes no sense. Mary Kay should be listed in the top things women do to mess up their lives–thought I know a few get really lucky and paraded as fine examples. I still see it as a religious cult.

RealDeal, REALLY! define Faith and yes MK says in her own biography that her business was based on building a career that allows women to put God 1st, family 2nd and career 3rd.
Maybe those that now run MK state it differently, but up until Sept 2007, when I returned my product, it was stated that way.
As far as a religious cult, maybe not to everyone, but there is no denying that many use faith and religion to build their teams and attract women of faith to the business and there is lots of scripture quoted at the unit meetings and rah rah sessions and even Seminar. Those who are not successful are often told Faith and Fear cannot exist in the same environment. Translation: you must not have enough Faith or you would be successful…”Satan (Fear) get thee behind me.”

I am sorry to hear about your daughter’s struggles, but you cannot blame a company for her decisions. You say she preaches about what this company has given her. Obviously she is receiving some type of non-monetary reward. Perhaps her priorities are not set on financial fulfillment, but something else. Depression doesn’t come from a single event. It is much deeper than that. I am a mother of 2 children and while I am considering Mary Kay as an option to help subsidize my income, never would I think to leave my current “real job” to sell products. I would start small and work to build my business because like everything in life, it takes time. If I had the ability to earn a steady income and had proven that to myself over time and had a substantial amount of savings just in case, it’s at that time I would consider doing Mary Kay full time. I understand that you are frustrated and sad watching your daughter go through this, but she is the one making these decisions. I hope that she finds help and gets what she needs.

Im sorry but i must say this about mary kay, i made $200 in one week of selling, I’m a mother and I’m broke as hell but the only way that you put your self in a bind with mary kay is if you keep buying things for yourself instead of putting money back to buy things to help your new MK adventure get bigger and stronger, i love MK it has done so much for me and my two little girls i can actually go out and buy them toys and nice clothes, about the car no one lies to you your directer tells you right when you walk threw that door that you COULD win a car for no cost witch you can if you work hard like at any other job not that you will get a car for free and your happy go lucky! I don’t care what any one thinks about it I’m walking proof its financially wonderful i don’t even want the car i want my 50% and the make up for my face cause its the best thing that has happened yet! Thank you MARY KAY for making my life financially better for me and my family.

Kayla, I can tell from the spelling and grammar in your post, that you are not well educated. It should be “walk through that door” not “walk threw that door”. “For no cost witch” should be “For no cost, which”. Did you even finish high school Kayla? No wonder you are selling Mary Kay. And that $200 you made is only your money after factoring in what you spent on inventory, sweetheart. Hope you aren’t putting all that on credit cards.

I love MK it supports me and my family and never once has my director told me the car was free she said you could work hard to get a car almost free, anyways you can’t put your self in a binde if you learn to manage money, thanks to MK I’m making money just buy putting the word out about the company, the products sell is self.